On each and every one of the talking head shows this morning, the Obama Administration surrogates were out there saying “Chill! We’ve got this!” as the discontent of the American people is becoming palpable over the handling of the Ebola crisis. Why shouldn’t we, given the obvious shortcomings of what we’ve seen lately from the “Benign and experts from the most Progressive Administration EVAH!”? From the laxity of our travel policies from Western Africa (lying on the form and a bottle of Ibuprofen will do ya!) to the highly competent hospital staff that ignored the truth (“I’m from Liberia” and “Here’s some pills – go home”) to cleaning the Ebola laced vomit off the sidewalk in Dallas with el cheapo pressure washer by unprotected workers (“hey, make those virus particles airborne!”) to trapping the family that housed him with his dirty linens before finally letting him go to the number rising of “contacts” from 10 to 15 to 80 to about a 100. And those four kids went to public schools during the time (and one Dallas based “educator” had the temerity to proclaim “hey, only 10% of our students are showing up any more!”).
And TMEW just told me that one of those “low risk” contacts has just vamoosed – tested once and now they can’t find him. Sometimes, the American population will take note of the news and they kinda already know about how this is playing out – and how dangerous this could be is to them and their families at a 70% death rate:
And the Administration says “Chill! We’ve got this!”. The rest of us are thinking – right, you won’t take any actions to do the minimalist stuff you could do – revoke Liberian based visas and stop jet flights from West Africa to act as the first layer in keeping us safe? You have demonstrably failed at the second level – what to do one a case is discovered.
I can’t decide: The Gang That Couldn’t Shoot Straight, Animal House, or Liar, Liar? Or just playing what they always do – putting raw politics over their actual responsibilities. For them, it is the competency of Government that drives the Progressive ideal – Obama cannot admit that it isn’t as capable as he wants (gee, look how many times he’s done “the slideslip” in throwing people and agencies under the bus as if he wasn’t the President. Problem is, those are coming too quickly and too soon lately.
This may be a biological disaster that can quickly leap out of control. Problem is, with the ill effects that Obamacare has had on our healthcare system, if this was to turn into an epidemic here in the US, would you be ready to bunker down at home for a bit?
